Salman Rushdie (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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To many readers, Rushdie has become the modern world’s preeminent victim of censorship. Not only has his novel The Satanic Verses (1988) been condemned in many Muslim countries, Rushdie himself was placed under a death threat endorsed by the Iranian government in early 1989. In a startling refutation of the lament of many modern fiction writers that their novels have no consequences, Rushdie has proven that the novel can still wound and inspire outrage. Six years after the issuance of the fatwa (or condemnation) against The Satanic Verses,...

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